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Definition of forester in English:

forester

noun

1A person in charge of a forest or skilled in planting, managing, or caring for trees.

‘Without trained foresters to mark the trees that should be cut, oversee the cutting, and develop plans to protect forests from fires and pilfering, sustained yield and preservation were impossible.’

‘These trees were introduced from abroad by foresters for fast-growing commercial plantations.’

‘He wanted a workforce to build Siberia and chose country people because they were foresters and lumberers with the skills to do the work he wanted.’

‘Last week, our foresters and contractors planted 12,700 pine seedlings on land burned by the Blodgett Canyon Fire in 2000.’

‘It has at one end of it, foresters that are logging forests, another group that is burning forests, and a very, very small group that try and preserve wildlife.’

‘Timber lobbyists and foresters say thin out some national forests as a means of fireproofing them and preventing more superfires; that means cutting trees - lots of them.’

‘The following day, the Batsford forester returned to cut down the tree.’

‘With the participation of a professional forester indicating which trees to fell, thinning cuts could simultaneously provide another arena for discussing and testing different selection criteria.’

‘Whether or not locals are actually degrading the forest through browsing and fuelwood collection or foresters are actually dismantling the forest through bribery and tree harvesting are not the most immediate questions.’

‘By the 1940s, foresters and loggers had improved their institutional and technological capacities so that they could respond more quickly to sudden demand than had been possible during WWI.’

‘As well as the visual elements, there is much that links the garden to its surroundings and to the family: the elm bench, for instance, was made from a tree on the estate by Jim Thompson, the head forester.’

‘He said ants are highly valued by German foresters for eating insects which attack trees.’

‘But the foresters missed the trees and hit their fellow foresters, and the game was born.’